Freezer Meals

Today I decided to fill my freezer.

I became interested in the idea when I was reading Money Saving Mom's Blog. She makes lots of freezer meals so that she always has something available for dinner. She says they save her time and money. I'm in.

Like probably all of you, there are times in my life that are so hectic I can hardly think about dinner. One of two things usually happens on those evenings:

1) We pick up Pete's.
2) We order pizza.

Both of these options are unhealthy and usually more expensive than what I can make at home.

SO... today I made freezer meals.

After scouring the internet for recipes, I found this website:  http://www.30mealsinoneday.com/. I tried one recipe a couple of weeks ago. It was good. I decided to purchase the book, and began reading it Sunday evening.

Yall know that I'm a couponer, but I haven't been feeling it this summer. I just want a break from the scissors and the newspaper. Today I went to the grocery store with NO coupons. I got EVERYTHING that I needed to make and assemble 10 meals. My cost was right under $100. I think that is pretty good for 10 meals with no coupons.

I didn't want to do 30 meals in one day because that sounded very overwhelming. I picked 10. You don't actually make 10 different recipes. You make five and then split them into two meals each.

You choose them from different categories (slow cooker, oven, stovetop, assemble) so that you can make several at one time.

I chose:

Cream Cheese Chicken- slow cooker
Chicken Cordon Bleu- oven
Jack Soup- stovetop
Italian Shells- assemble
Chicken and Dressing- assemble

Anyway... the cool thing was that I did it during the time period of one Grayson nap. Two and a half hours and my freezer is full with 10 (actually nine... we had one tonight) meals that I can serve over the next two weeks.

I really think that this could work for me in the fall. :)